Many of the well-documented benefits of music stem from the fact that music-making is often a social or shared activity, that making music together is a positive and pleasurable experience.
Increasingly, technology enables us to recreate that social experience as individuals. From listening to your choice of music streamed straight to your headphones, to using sequencers or digital audio workstations to record, edit, manipulate or playback sounds in unlimited parts, music has never been so accessible or so personalised.
As cloud-based solutions increase in popularity, there are many ways in which these might integrate with the social aspects of music-making and technology, opening up new ways to be creative collaboratively. While music curriculum time is increasingly squeezed, accessible tools to consolidate content from lessons can provide new ways for music learning and music-making to continue outside the music room. Meanwhile, cross-platform cloud-based solutions can help to utilise technology to which students have access outside school already.
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